Benjamin Buchloh’s two interviews with Gerhard Richter, which bookend this slim volume, are fascinating glimpses into the artist’s interior life, and thus rewarding. Unfortunately, jargon and proli...

Volume 25, Issue 7-8, November - December 2020, Page 891-893.

The essays chosen for this anthology were taken from a conference held April 20–21, 2018, in Florence, Italy, at the Dutch University Institute of Art. All concern themselves with what editor Guy H...

Peter Mack asserts a truism in the Preface of Reading Old Books: Writing with Tradition. He argues from the first paragraph that “literary tradition provides essential imaginative resources for wri...

Volume 25, Issue 7-8, November - December 2020, Page 893-896.

An impressive work of scholarship, Brian P. Copenhaver’s study of Pico della Mirandola, Magic and the Dignity of Man deserves to be called definitive. A hefty 682 pages, although a goodly part is g...